[78-L] Par-O-Ket

[Glenn Longwell]

I have checked what I own in terms of Nauck catalogs and haven't seen a 500 series there.  Never seen a 500 series either although Ty's discography lists a few and Sutton's book mentions this series existed as well.  None of the Talking Machine World listings I've seen lists the 500 series.  The last listing in December 1917 goes up to 125.
If people go look - one of the Nauck catalogs lists a 9000 catalog number.  This is a misprint.  It should be 90.
Also, Paroquette advertised a couple times that they were going to be making a 10" record.  I think the first time is in March 1917, 9 months before their last listing in Talking Machine World and over a year before their assets were sold after bankruptcy.  The last time I see anything about a 10" record is from Sept 1917 when they say "A great list of 10" records ready for delivery Nov. 1st"  None that I know have been found.  Anyone know of any?  I wonder what catalog numbers they would be, if they existed?
Lastly, Paroquette also produced and sold an attachment for playing vertical cut records on a lateral machine.  If anyone has one of these I'd be interested in pictures or, even better, if one was for sale.
 
Thanks,
Glenn

--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:


From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
Subject: [78-L] Par-O-Ket
To: "78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 10:10 AM


I have Par-o-Ket label images in the range 2 - 124.
So that can now be expanded to at least 125 (thanks!).
I have never seen a 500 series issue.
Possibly some can be found in old Nauck catalogs?

Han Enderman
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>>> There's a picture of a disc and label on this page.

http://www.majesticrecord.com/labelsp.htm

I only give a brief description about Paroquette whereas the other link below gives much more detail.

The records are uncommon but they come up more often than the Majestics.

As for the 165 tpi I was pulling that off their own marketing information.  I've never actually measured it.  However, their records can play as long as a 10" record.

NEVER play any of these on an Edison DD machine!

By the way, I'm looking to figure out what the highest catalog number is for the Par-O-Ket's in both the 100 and 500 series.  125 and 530 are the highest I know of.  Anyone have anything higher in their collection?  Thanks.

Glenn
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